You guys are not alone, I have the song saved on my computer and actually listen to it once in awhile. It really is a good song and John Stamos has a good voice. That is one song I loved as a child that I am not as embarressed about now that I am older (oh like, say, those songs that Zack's "band" sang on Saved by the Bell.)

Speaking of FH and great music, the episode was on today when Stephanie and her dance class dance to Motownphilly! Its so awesome!

You know, I wish they'd have gone somewhere with the "Stephanie dances" character trait. She never came across as a prodigy or anything, but just as a really cute, happy little kid who was having a lot of fun. Her dance to "Love Shack" was the best part of the telethon episode.

What made it even worse for me was the only reason he did "yell" at her (and he hardly yelled. His voice was slightly raised and he was barely looking at her) was because she kept whining.

Jesse: I'm not going.
Michelle: (whiny voice) but you promised!
Repeat 3 times with Michelle getting louder each time.

What little child would be allowed to whine back at an adult like that? Maybe it's just the teacher in me that finds it very disrespectful. He said he wasn't going, end of conversation. But, of course, does Michelle get called out on her whining and disrespectfulness? No, it's just Uncle Jesse's fault.


All those songs were awesome. Especially Hot Sundae's Go For It. I listen to it all the time. I must now find "Forever" because, yes, that was a great song.


Me, too. I was in dance classes around the time FH was airing, and since she was my favorite character, I thought it was so cool she and I were doing the same thing. Did anyone else try to memorize the choreography to the Motownphilly dance? Anyone? Just me? Alrighty then.

They did go somewhere with it -- there was the episode where she gets into the advanced dance class and decides she loves dancing as a hobby, not as something serious to pursue. But she's afraid to tell her dad because he's so happy because he gave up his own dreams of high-jumping or something silly like that. There's a great dream sequence in which he sings about it in that episode... predictably, it leads to Stephanie trying to mess up the class dance on purpose, a tinkly-music hug, followed by the real dance.

I wonder if the actress actually danced in real life? I mean, outside the show?

Oh no, not just you. I think I mentioned a long while back something about that dance routine. I taped it and tried to do the dance; now that I think about it, I really wanted to be Stephanie when I was young. I tried the dance, I think I did the bathroom/bedroom thing, I said "How rude!" too often...but worst of all, WORST OF ALL, I copied the flannel shirts.

My favorite part of that dream sequence is that Becky is dancing around even though she is probably about eight months pregnant. Michelle's dancing is so terrible that it is painful to watch. I don't even blame whichever Olsen that was (entirely) because she was probably four years old at the time and I think the whole thing was just a bit much for her to handle.

Here's a Michelle moment that drives me crazy (and there are so many.) Its the one when Michelle is part of the Polite Police at preschool and drives everyone crazy by correcting their manners for a week. Then at the end of the episode she goes up to Stephanie who is eating a cupcake and is all, "May I have the cupcake please?" Stephanie responds politely but then Michelle ends up grabbing it from her and running out of the room. Now, that is insanely bratty but it annoys the crap out of me that Michelle even walks up to her and asks for her cupcake. Who does that? Its not..."May I have half of your cupcake?" or "Can you help me get a cupcake?" Who just walks up to someone and demands all the food they are eating? Sigh, I guess I answered my own question.

Didn't Jesse's "Forever" single go to #1 and then drop to #99 the next week or something like that?

No, it never got up that high, although it did in Japan. Which, of course, led to an insufferable incident where Becky lambasts him for not writing to Michelle everyday when he was on his Japanese tour.

The sun just rises and sets on that child, and the whole world must revolve around her. Who the heck would write to anyone EVERY DAY while on vacation or on tour? Did Jesse & Becky ever go on a honeymoon? If so, I'm sure Michelle went along with them. I only recall the "They're doing their taxes" episode, which probably was their honeymoon-spent in the attic, thanks to Michelle, no doubt. In the Hawaiian vacation episode when their boat floated away, I wish they would have made that be Michelle's fault somehow, instead of Danny's. Not that there would be any repercussions if that were the case. Annoying little twit.

I thought they did end up having their own honeymoon without anyone else. Then the episode where Michelle and Jesse have a Moment (the one where they move into the attic) takes place right after they come back from their honeymoon.

Tibby, word on the Politeness Police hate. Did you see that Jesse's laughing as he sees Stephanie run after Michelle? Jerk.

The one where they move into the attic is my least favorite episode ever. Even as a child I didn't understand why a grown married man wouldn't tell Michelle to get over it. Sorry honey we have to live in your cowokers attic because the five year old will get to upset if we move down the street.

I wonder if that was scripted or if John Stamos was just laughing at the kids.

But yeah, that shit pissed me off. I mean, they could've made a less angermaking joke and had her storm off muttering about what a rip-off politeness is if you can't always get what you want. I DID like Stephanie's, "I was polite, too, I said 'no, you may not.' "
Either Stephanie took after Pam or was the product of an affair, because she was way too cool (and well-adjusted, more or less) to be Danny's.

Or how about Michelle was ON the boat when it floated away? Awesome!

Now you're talking Becka!

I vote affair. If you were stuck being married to Danny, wouldn't YOU cheat on him? I know I would.

The episode about DJ's first day in junior high, isn't the teacher who wears the same outfit as DJ, Eliza Jane from Little House on the Prairie?

I love that episode...especially Stephanie in it. Michelle was never able to deliver lines the way Stephanie did when she was younger.

This is the best thread ever. I can't get enough of the Michelle Must Be On the Boat That Floats Away Board. God has found a home for me at last.

I never would have married him in the first place. Maybe she was from one of those families where if someone knocks you up, you marry him.

And then when that stopped helping, she faked her death to get away... it all makes sense now!

Suddenly it's all so clear!
Kakistos, I love your username. Hee.

If it's the same one the one where DJ wears too much makeup, then yes. Good eye!

Lol, and Kathy Santini was like a mini Britney for the junior high set.

I can't remember for sure but isn't Kathy Santini the girl who is married and gets pregnant? I don't think she is ever shown in the later seasons, but in the episode where Steve gets him own apartment and DJ falls asleep there, she is mentioned in the beginning of the episode after DJ and Kimmy buy gifts for her baby shower.

I'm sorry to be a Grammer Nazi, but her name was Kathy Santoni.

I was totally going to post that. BTW, it's grammar not grammer. ;) I'm the grammar nazi to grammar nazis.

I didn't like how they used poor Kathy as the scapegoat for everything "bad" a teenager could do.

WORD! When Stephanie was 5 and 6 she was like a little genius. She was very articulate and funny and all around charming. But Michelle at that age, was an idiot. She was cute because she was stupid and had a stupid voice and was a brat and had no comedic timing so she had to settle for stupid catch phrases that were used over and over again. Stephanie had catch phrases too but at least she was funny other times!

The two early Stephanie lines that stick with me are:

(after driving the car into the kitchen)
Jesse: You're the one that drove the card into the kitchen? Steph, you can't even drive!
Stephanie: You're tellin' me!

and

(during a fight with DJ), something along the lines of:
DJ: I'm older
Stephanie: I'm younger
DJ: I'm taller
Stephanie: I'm shorter
DJ: I'm smarter
Stephanie: I'm... (steps back) not falling for that!

Great delivery on both counts.

Has anyone else seen the commercial on Nick @ Nite that seeks to answer the question, "Why does Joey Gladstone act like such an idiot?" I believe their final conclusion was because he has no shame, but I'm thinking there's a lot more to his stupidity than just that.

Jodie was genuinely cute and funny as a little girl, and I'll still find myself laughing at many of her moments. To name a few:

The pilot episode where she's climbing on the windowshade
The one where Joey's practicing his comedy routine and she runs downstairs with her tape player playing Flight of the Bumblebee - So cute!
Goodbye, Mr. Bear - She did really well with the emotional scenes
Aftershocks and Honey, I Broke the House - Just like her in those episodes

It's not her fault the producers made her wear the flannel shirts later!

There was an episode on yesterday that I didn't watch but the info for it on Tivo said it was the one where Danny is Bachelor of the Month (give me break!) and so he doesn't have time for Michelle anymore. That's always an issue with her, isn't it? Jesse gets married and doesn't have time for her, Danny actually has somewhat of a life for once and can't devote every second to her, etc. Isn't that why Jesse and Joey lived there--to help with the kids? Apparently Michelle thinks they're there for her and only her and God freakin' forbid any of them not spend every waking second with her. What a spoiled brat!
I thought it was a much more endearing and realistic episode that time when Stephanie had to see a counselor because there was an earthquake and Danny got home really late and she started getting all clingy because that had really scared her and she was afraid something was going to happen to him. It was believable since she already lost one parent and she wasn't at all a brat about it or acting selfish--she played the part with real emotions and believable fear. She wasn't just trying to be a brat like Michelle and monopolize all of Danny's time because of her high sense of entitlement and self-importance!

That and the Olsen twins seriously needed some speech therapy. Besides the fact that they spoke robotically, you could barely understand a word they said most of the time. Speech impediments aren't cute, dammit! Okay, they were with Teddy, but he spoke very clearly most of the time.


She really did. She was charming, and also could really act. I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but that episode always makes me tear up. I haven't seen Aftershocks in ages, but I remember her being very good in that as well.

Young Jodie Sweetin is just one of the reasons why early Full House was so much more coherent and watchable than the later years. While it wasn't high art then, it wasn't yet the hot mess that it's most well-known for to this day.

While I think it's remarkable that they stuck with the Olsens (usually a sitcom will ditch the baby stand-ins and find new child actors when it's time for them to age), it really showed that they weren't natural actors when they could start to talk, and especially when they got into elementary age. Yet somehow, the character became hugely popular and the entire show was derailed to bow at her feet.

One of the worst episodes of the run aired on Nick at Nite tonight (or last night, if you actually went to bed). The Rigby the Rhino fiasco, where Michelle and her bratty little friends are all obsessed with a Barney-esque TV character and order toys based on him. The problem? The toys aren't stuffed animals, but small plastic figurines. This prompts Joey (who apparently has nothing better to do with his life) to march with the kids to the mall where Rigby is appearing and protest. The most cringe-worthy part? He has a showdown with a mall security guard, who basically does a Don Knotts as Barney Fife impersonation the whole time.

There could have been a great lesson in there about not believing everything you see in TV commercials, but no, potential for actual learning is once again abandoned so that Michelle never, ever gets her pwecious feewings hurted.

What always gets me about this horrible episode is the total lameness of the Rigby costume. Really really ultra-cheap and cheesy.

[/QUOTE]I'm sorry to be a Grammer Nazi, but her name was Kathy Santoni.
I can't believe I actually mispelled "grammar" when correcting someone on spelling, lol. Sorry for that :-}



And I do find that Jodie Sweetin was one of the only things keeping FH afloat during the early years. I still can't believe she didn't become the millionaire and the Olsens did (not that I have anything against them, they just figured out capitalism). The Olsens' lives aren't that great anyway in many respects...absolutely no anonymity.

If the Olsens weren't twins, there's no way they'd have reached this level of fame. No way in hell. Their being twins is a gimmick and pretty much all they have going for them. They can't act or sing, surely.

One of my favorite funny Stephanie moments was when Dj and Kimmy dressed like skanks to go to junior high and DJ asks "How do we look?" and Stephanie says "cheap". She says it with perfect timing, a perfect pause, and the perfect delivery. I love curly haired stephanie. When her hair got straight she started to get boring and full house became the michelle show.

Man, even young Stephanies friends were better than Michelle's. Harry Takayama, with the bowl cut and the "Okay, Chief" and the "I can see up your nose, darling"? Flipping adorable. Walter of the glasses and the speed of light? The coolest nerd I've ever seen.

Denise "I'll cut you with my incisors" Frazer? Teddy "Ishn't it sho cute when a kid lishps"? Derek "I can't believe my mom made me take this bit part on this lameass show...I'm so much more fabulous than this" Boyd? Creepy-ass kids, one and all.

Aww, I thought Denise & Teddy were really cute!

I love Harry. I wish they had brought him back later.

Michelle actually spoke the truth on "Spellbound" (the one where Stephanie's in the spelling bee)

Michelle: I'm too dumb to read.

Maybe I'm ignorant, but wouldn't most kids already know how to read at her age? (6)

Was Michelle excellent at anything? DJ and Stephanie were both good students and athletes, but was Michelle even remotely good at anything? Aside from being an annoying brat?

She was good at eating chicken and watching Arsenio.

She was supposedly "great" in her Yankee Doodle auditions, but her singing voice was so dull, nasal and flat it made my teeth itch, and you could barely hear her. Her "acting" was, well, as bad as the Olsens'.

Wasn't Michelle good at softball? Did she even PLAY softball? I know that she sucked at soccer...

I think you're thinking of Stephanie- there was an ep where she discovered she had a great pitching arm, and had a moral dilemma when she had to strike out a boy she liked. What was Michelle good at? Getting her way, of course!

Re: Michelle's friends, don't forget Aaron! That kid was awesome. He always had something to say that put the adults in their place. In the Superbowl ep he had loads of great lines- like when Jesse said "I'm older, I should know more than you!" and Aaron said "But you don't!" They should have given him a bigger part on the show, because he was great.

I will forever love Aaron for the line "All you can see in my dad's telescope is a bunch of stewardesses sitting at the pool"

Aaron seemed like Kimmy II. I remember when Michelle lost the class bird, didn't he say something to her about it? I'm blanking on what, but any kid that makes fun of Michelle is okay in my book.

I think it was something asinine like "You're very, very bad," or "You're a bad girl," but it was still awesome because he said it to Michelle.
Aaron had great lines, but the kid who played him was majorly annoying.

My all time favorite Aaron line is one I don't even remember clearly. Jessie put him down for some reason, and Aaron fired back with (paraphrasing) "Are you still out of work?" The hatefulness of it was wonderful, and I wish I could find the exact wording.

Now that I think about it, I'm mixing up the actual show with those books that came out based on the show. I definitely remember reading a Michelle-centric book in which she is good at softball, but has a lousy glove so some older popular kids make fun of her...

(Yes, I really did read some of these books. What makes it sadder is that I read some of them as recently as a few months ago, and I'm 21. I remember one of the Stephanie books being titled Phone Call from a Flamingo. This is very, very sad.)